Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-07-05
BEATS ENOCH ARDEN.
A True story or Love, Separation.
Remarriage and a Final
Reunion.
[Pitisburgh nlspatch. /

pittsburgh Dispatch.l
The following story from life, which de-
| eidedly discounts the romance OF Enocn
| Arden, was completely corroborated 10 the
| West End last evening: Years ago, In the
| mining town OF Ponto Pool, nesting
among the mountains OF the coast OF
| Wales, George Poland aud Mary Davis
were married amid the great rejOicings
Of their many friends. All things at
| first conspired 10 make their welded
| life happy one, and as The years
passed by children blessed their humble
home. Poland had risen and became sn
| engineer at one OF the mines, and Mrs.
| Poland was the landlady OF country mn
| polaud's work necessitated his absence
| from home several nights In the week. "A
! domestic servant led the husband alter one
| Of his departures 10 doubt his wite,s
| fidelity. His pride being injured, and,
| being quick tempered man, be upbraided
| Mrs. Poland. She IA turn answered MIN
| hastily. and be. In the heat OF his passion,
cast her of. Rushing out OF the house, he
never rested until ON board steamer
| bound for America.
He came to Pittsburgh and obtained work
AZ one Of the coal-mines near the city
| There he worked steadily and endeayored
| TO forget the woman Of whom he believed
| that size had wronged him in far.OH Wales.
After being in America few montns he
| received a letter from friend ia his old
home, which stated that his wife was III
and would rcyer recover.
In 1861 Poland met Mrs Mary Simpson,
a widow who kept boarding.house at
Banksville. and, being informed that MS
wife was dead, he proposed aud was ac-
cen,ed by the widow as her husband. They
were quietly married, which was not gene.
rally kuown to their friends, and their mar
ricd life passed without serious disturbance
until 1885, when they were separated In
romantic way.
one summer day, two years ago, travel
| tired little lady walked Into the "Old
| Stone Tavern on the Washington pike,
and, with n pronounced Welsh accent,
| asked where George Poland resided. The
proprietor jOkiDgly asked her II sh"was
| his wife. She replied that she was with
such seriousness that the host determined
| to send for Poland, aS he was particular
| friend OF his. The lOng-separated couple
met in the dining room Of tue hotel, where
tie proprietor left them to tell their
| stories.
Mrs. Poland then explained that after
few wears OF toll and struggle without sue.
cess She determined TO come to America
and find her husband. Drifting to Wilkes
barre. Pa, her sons Obidloed work in the
mines, and were doing we'll. OF Poland
she heard nothing until two years ago,
when a family from Pittsburgh moved 10
| Wikesbarre and told the woman where
| her husband was. She came on TO this citY
and found him married 10 another woman.
| He had little TO say, but She determined 10
leave him to enjoy his second welded eX'
| pe,iCncc, and in his company returned To
| NilkeshaTre.
Poland came back TO this city, but did not
| live with the secoad wife, who soon after
ward fell III and died, II Is said, from the
result Of brooding over the great crime
| she thought she had committed. Poland
boarded with one OF the Two children OF
| his second wife, but later he furnished q
house OF his own. and had his daughter
keep house for him until several weeks
| ago, when she left him.
| Deserted by his former friends, old, ana
! partially bind from the result OF an acct
| dent, be, upon the advice OF friend, wrote
to his first wife, begged her forgiveness for
the wrong he had done her, aud pleaded
vrith he's 4" aana lsnk Ia him. She con-
! sonted, and arrived IN town last tuesday.
The old couple poland being now over
seventy years Of age aud Mrs. Poland a
| few years y0unger) were seen last evening
vending their way to grocery store 10
ay IN stock Of provisions. as happy as
any Young married couple just beginning
| A.